Robin, according to my tables, the mass of a bare d is 2.014101778,
which is the value I used. I don't know where you got the idea an
electron is involved. These are nuclear reactions.
Ed
On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:27 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to David Roberson's message of Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:20:35
-0400 (EDT):
Hi,
[snip]
Robin,
Why is the energy required to break apart the D 2.2 MeV? Ed
calculated 1.7 MeV by calculating the mass difference which seemed
correct. I would assume that there is no charge change taking
place which involves an electron since the same number of protons
are present in both the initial and final products. Could you
explain your reasoning?
Please see my earlier post, where Ed's calculation is corrected.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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